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Billion Dollar Brain: Complete & Unabridged [Audiobook] (Audio Cassette)

by Len Deighton (Author), Paul Daneman (Reader)
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  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: Chivers Audio Books; Unabridged edition (Sep 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0745141889
  • ISBN-13: 978-0745141886
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars My Arm Is Long And My Vengeance Is Total!, 26 Mar 2006
By Zokko (llanelli) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Billion Dollar Brain (Paperback)
The unnamed spy whose adventures were first chronicled in 'The Ipcress File' goes to Helsinki to meet Olaf Kaarna, a journalist claiming to have uncovered a British Military Intelligence operation in the area. He finds Kaarna in his flat, a hatpin sticking out of his back and covered in raw egg.

Kaarna's killer is an agent of 'Facts For Freedom', an organisation dedicated to the destruction of Communism, run by a rabid right-wing millionaire called General Midwinter and controlled by an advanced computer network called The Brain. Using stolen viruses from Porton Down, Midwinter plans to start an uprising in Latvia. But he is being swindled by one of his own men, Harvey Newbegin, a man with a taste for dangerous but beautiful women...

For my money, the best thing Deighton has ever done. Back in the '60's, spy stories where the Russians weren't the baddies were rare. Indeed with the benefit of hindsight this could now be viewed as the first anti-Vietnam War tract. Midwinter is a xenophobe prone to making 'God loves America' speeches while the 'all-powerful super-computer' idea preempted HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' by a few years. A return appearance by Colonel Stok ( last seen in 'Funeral In Berlin' ) is especially welcome. But what makes this so much fun is the wonderfully witty prose. Yes, there's a lot of coffee drinking and clandestine meetings in offices but if one book perfectly summed up the turbulent '60's as a whole, its this one.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gets Better With Each Reading!, 20 Nov 2007
By R. ARMSTRONG-FINNERTY (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Billion Dollar Brain (Paperback)
Len Deighton is a superb writer and this book is, without doubt, his best work.

I don't know how many times I've read it, but it's so good that I can happily read a chapter at random and still feel fulfilled.

The plot is both a rock-solid Cold War tale and an engaging interplay of believable characters. Deighton was described by one critic, in the 1960s, as the poet of the Spy genre: never a truer word.

Ultimately, it's the beautifully crafted characters and the delightful writing style that make this book the Gold Standard that it is.

I highly recommend it.
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